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MILWAUKEE — Linebacker A.J. Hawk had a hunch after Green Bay's season ended that he might be looking for a new team. So he wasn't surprised after the Packers released him Wednesday following nine years with the only club he has played with in the NFL. Hawk is not bitter, either. "I wasn't taken by surprise. I kind of had a feeling it might happen," Hawk said on a podcast he released Wednesday after the team made the move. "The Packers actually let me know. ... They've stayed awesome throughout this whole process, been super classy." Hawk, a respected locker room presence, leaves Green Bay with 1,118 tackles, tops in the franchise since...

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MILWAUKEE — Linebacker A.J. Hawk had a hunch after Green Bay's season ended that he might be looking for a new team.
So he wasn't surprised after the Packers released him Wednesday following nine years with the only club he has played with in the NFL.
...

SEATTLE — It was an instant classic that took a meandering eternity to unfold.
After being thoroughly outplayed for roughly 57 minutes, the Seahawks went on a forehead-slapping scoring spree Sunday to secure a return trip to the Super Bowl.
Jermaine...

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Few moved very fast, no one flattened a quarterback and there were no bone-jarring hits in the gentle, friendly version of football played at the Pro Bowl Sunday.
Even in a game dominated by offense, J.J. Watt was the star.
The...

Henry Melton is the one who got away from the Bears, a draft pick who panned out to become a high-level player they couldn't get under contract long term.
The defensive tackle returns Thursday night as the leader of the Cowboys pass rush. Although he has...

Something has to give.
The Packers were 8-0 at home this season, averaging a league-best 39.8 points in those games.
The Cowboys were 8-0 on the road, averaging 34.4 points away from home, also tops in the NFL.
Sunday's divisional matchup marks the...

Turns out the Green Bay Packers are more musically inclined than just making Bears fans sing the blues. Linebacker Clay Matthews and a few teammates are such big fans of the show choir movie "Pitch Perfect," that they've been invited to make a...

There isn't a turning point in a 55-14 loss. The thorough beating begins early and remains intense throughout.
But there were a handful of plays that helped the Bears into an enormous hole Sunday night in their embarrassing loss to the Packers at Lambeau...

GREEN BAY — If the Bears had hoped to use their time off in Week 9 to sharpen their offensive attack, the first half Sunday night at Lambeau Field instead spoke to a team that had somehow found a way to get sloppier during its time off. Much sloppier.
On...

The Chicago Bears reached the midway point of their season at 3-5 with their patience hanging by a thread and their playoff hopes in need of resuscitation. With four losses in the past five games, including a 51-23 blowout loss in New England in Week 8,...

The Bears and Matt Forte once again can attack the Packers defensive front seven with the trap schemes in Marc Trestman's playbook to produce numbers in the run game.
As shown here, the Bears align in a Pro Split Exchange formation with Regular/21...

After losing to the Dolphins, a game in which he threw another interception and committed another fumble on a sack, Jay Cutler had nothing for you.
“I wish I had some more answers,’’ Cutler said with resignation, as if his usual postgame edge had been...

Sacks equate to dollars for defensive ends and that is why Jared Allen is happy he has already had his big payday.
The Bears' pass rush is improved this season with 15 sacks so far compared to eight through the first six games a year ago, but it's...

Ten thoughts after the Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears for the fifth consecutive time at Soldier Field, winning 38-17 on Sunday.
1. In a 21-point loss with plenty of good and bad by the Bears, it’s impossible to pick one turning point in the...

Relax.
It's the word that came out of Aaron Rodgers' mouth multiple times last week, as he urged legions of Packers fans to chill out after the uproar over the team's third 1-2 start in as many seasons.
If only Jay Cutler could say the same thing and...

Sunday presented the Bears with a chance to announce themselves as a division power and maybe even a Super Bowl contender in this jailbreak of an NFL season.
Instead, the Bears chose to announce they have no clue how to stop Aaron Rodgers, even when he’s...

Bears columnist Brad Biggs tackles readers' questions.
Who has gotten the better deal so far: Green Bay with Julius Peppers or the Bears with Jared Allen? -- @tomjwallace from TwitterFor starters, I don’t know that either team has scored a...

After a pair of encouraging road victories, the Bears return to Soldier Field on Sunday for a key divisional game against the Packers. With kickoff closing in, here's our snapshot look at the game.
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Since making his worst decision...

We want to feel confidence. We want to believe the Bears are better than the Packers, finally, and should take care of business in the most important game of the season's first quarter. We want to, but we don't.
The Packers come to Soldier Field at...